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TEACHING, LEARNING, RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION
There are several collaborations across all four faculties. The Faculty of Science and Agriculture is collaborating with various institutions nationally and internationally and is working hard to add to the scientific knowledge globally through publications and conference presentations. The Department of Human Movement Science initiated collaboration with international FitSchoolKids and the Non-Communicable Disease Intervention Research Unit (NCDIRU). This project focuses on assessing and managing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in children (and adults) in the surrounding rural community. This will longitudinally involve departmental Honours, master’s and PhD students, a possible self-funded postdoctoral fellow, as well as numerous departmental staff.
The Department of Nursing Science has had talks concerning the Community Engagement Project with the community of the Kwa-MkhwanaziTribal Court. In principle, the community has accepted to work with the research team of the Department on matters that affect their health. The aim of this collaboration is to raise awareness about the importance of healthy living habits and life modification where necessary and possible in UNIZULU’s surrounding community.
STUDENT ENROLMENT
UNIZULU’s Enrolment Plan 2020-2025 is a continuous build up to the enrolment Plan 2013-2019, however, it incorporates the newly discovered aspirations of repositioning the University for the 21st century Higher Education needs as well as the redefinition of the University mission from being a historically-disadvantaged traditional university to that which has been restructured to become a comprehensive rural university. The Enrolment Plan commits to restraining enrolment growth in the Arts and Humanities, particularly teacher education with the view to growing enrolments in Science, Education and Training (SET) areas, and social sciences located in the Faculty of Commerce, Administration and Law by introducing more diploma programmes at the Richards Bay campus. The University has made significant strides with the introduction of its new Engineering qualifications. Engineering diploma programmes will in future articulate into bachelor’s degrees and postgraduate programmes as the University grows its Engineering programme provisioning, supported by growth in capital infrastructure. Growth in enrolments will envisage a total headcount of 21 500 students by 2025. After the registration of students at the beginning of 2020, the headcount enrolment targets were as follows:
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